1:25 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Errol Spence Jr. and Shawn Porter waged the possible fight of the year, but it was Spence who got the nod in an action-packed victory by split decision to unify two welterweight world titles Saturday night at Staples Center. After a bit of a slow start, the fight turned

11:54 PM ET LOS ANGELES — David Benavidez said all along he was going to knock Anthony Dirrell out and take back the super middleweight world title he once held. Benavidez did just that in a dominating performance, as he stopped a bloody Dirrell in the ninth round when Dirrell’s corner threw in the towel

11:54 PM ET Before welterweight world titleholders Errol Spence Jr. and Shawn Porter meet to unify belts at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Saturday, many good fights will take place on the undercard. Anthony Dirrell puts his WBC super middleweight world title on the line against David Benavidez and Mario Barrios faces Batyr Akhmedov

1:25 PM ET Mexico’s Elwin Soto will return to the same Southern California location where he won his junior flyweight world title to make his first defense. Golden Boy Promotions announced on Friday that Soto will defend against the Philippines’ Edward Heno on Oct. 24 in the main event of its “Thursday Night Fights” series

1:14 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Welterweight world titleholders Errol Spence Jr. and Shawn Porter both flexed, showed off their belts and predicted an unforgettable fight as they made weight Friday before a cheering crowd inside the Wilshire Grand Ballroom at the Intercontinental Hotel. It was the final time they will see each other before

6:29 PM ET Steve KimESPN Daniel “Dynamite” Dubois put forth another display of explosive punching power and sound technique as he blew out Ebenezer Tetteh in less than one round at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Friday night. Coming out of the gate with great purpose, Dubois (13-0, 12 KOs) started quickly by

2:31 PM ET LOS ANGELES — When Errol Spence Jr. got his first opportunity to fight for a welterweight world title in 2017, it came about only because he was a mandatory challenger. Nobody with a belt wanted to voluntarily give him a shot because facing him figured to be such a high-risk/low-reward proposition. Spence’s

1:35 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Welterweight world titlist Errol Spence Jr. has significant business to deal with in the form of fellow beltholder Shawn Porter, but that has not stopped Spence from talking about the bigger fights he wants. Spence and Porter meet to unify their 147-pound belts in one of the year’s most

1:15 PM ET Light heavyweight titlist Dmitry Bivol has been scheduled to defend his crown on Oct. 12 for some time but on Thursday he finally got an opponent. Bivol will make his sixth title defense against Lenin Castillo in the co-feature of former undisputed cruiserweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk’s heavyweight debut against Tyrone Spong,

12:07 PM ET The last time Nigel Benn was in a boxing ring he was left beaten, broken and in tears, but he is now ready to end his 23-year exile with a remarkable and controversial return to boxing. Benn was a world champion in 1990, one of British sport’s most famous faces, a veteran